Art Nouveau

Here's a simple scene I finished this afternoon. I've always been a big fan of sci-fi fantasy, and this image was inspired by Disney's classic space adventure, The Black Hole.

It's entitled Celestial Wonder: Vortex at Beta Librae One.
« Clickety Click for a bigger pic. It's a rather large GIF, weighing in at a mere 900k.



A little back-story:

Beta One is a solar system very much like ours in the Libra constellation. It's common name is Zubeneschamali. Its proper astronomical name is Beta Librae. In Aramaic, that translates to "Northern Claw".

[best]

That would make a great wall poster.

Have you seen the picture of the stars that they call the eye of God?

Thx Best. I've seen that image & I'm very familiar with it. It's awesome & doesn't even look real. It's unusual shape is due to several supernova eruptions.

[Purrdy]

Blimey!

Too intellectually advanced for me! (and i cant spell either!) but you know what i mean......

[equus]

I LOVE the colours!! Cool blend!

[cwohio]

looks like a beautiful space flower! wow!

Here's another fantasy pic I threw together last night, using only E-on Software's Vue 4 Esprit. It's a couple years old, but pretty powerful for generating 3D scenes. Terragen is good too for being an GNU OpenSource project. (It's more or less like a VistaPro 5 that never got to see the light of day).

Anyway, here's "Beta Librae One: Moonrise over Mt. Zandar"

(estimated time to create: approx 1 hr, just fartin' around)

And here's a static image I used in assembling the first animated vortex.

[Done_With_It]

Those are soo cool!

[indigo]

You are really so talented do you do it for work? you should if you don't . Thanks for sharing them Midas.

Thx Done & Idigo. Do I do it for work? OMG I wish! It's really a hobby that keeps me from going plum loco. I've often thought about it. I've used so many different programs for soooo long, it's almost second nature--like an artists paintbrush. I kinda had an idea to start a business doing strictly digital photo retouching, but the software that's available (even the free stuff) makes it unprofitable.

[Done_With_It]

You should make a website with all your stuff, get into some type of business.....

Your talent with the stuff is too good not to be getting out there sweetie. You like it and it's fun for you, So SELL IT!!!! ;-)